The Luna Younger Case Is Really About the Power of the Patriarchy

The custody battle over a trans girl in Texas is what happens when men blame moms for children who don’t adhere to gender norms

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Published in
6 min readNov 13, 2019

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LLuna Younger, a seven-year-old trans girl who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at age five, has become a national news story thanks to a…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.